I'm actually enjoying this show, enough to defend it against all these negative comments.
Not for what the show is, but for what it isn't.
Because I'm seriously burned-out on these modern super-über-melodrama shows where everyone seems to think the best course of action is the one that actively sabotages their own goals, but it's always someone else's fault, because... um... random emotional outbursts with no justifiable reason = good writing? It's... irritating.
This show has the vibe that it's trying to be one of those types of shows, but it's so low-budget that it just doesn't reach that level of “what’s wrong with you” insanity.
Granted, I could build that set in my garage, the special effects are... about standard for a SyFy TV movie, and yes, the characters are two-dimensional cardboard stereotypes, but at least they’re reasonable! Maybe a little too reasonable at times, like they’ve been drinking the kool-aid, or the writer doesn’t have the life-experience to know how someone might (or should) react under those circumstances; sometimes I get the feeling they back down from a potential altercation just to move to the next scene, but still.
If they slowed down the pacing, stopped throwing every sci-fi cliché they can at it and researched the science behind those clichés, then it wouldn't be too far off from the old Star Treks, which weren't much more than a higher-budget college theater production anyways.
So for what it is, I'm enjoying it.
Just get ready to throw some popcorn.
